'This was the wintry sky of little dimension - the flat scenery of lifelines and old stories, with the pallid lights of a Christmas from long ago...' 
'My shed is cold and distant now, my brother, cold and far away.' 
'The white rooster of the window's own kingdom - erect and alert, looking out as in a fantasy of dream. Everywhere else, where confusion looms, pales by comparison. Here there is order and peace with an expectation of just 'something' to come. 
'Like a cinema of the grave - I looked across the canal and saw two sorry men fishing in a forty degree chill next to the stump of an old, broken mill.' 
'Shadows, dark, doubt...everything preferred reflection to reality. The edges of each form were definite and sharp.' 
'I heard it coming on Saturday - the broad new dictate from somewhere above. I looked, but I really could not care.' 